Buckle.



E. N. HUMPHREY'.

BUCKLE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 11. 1914.'

1,161,804. I Y P11116110 23, 1915.

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ERNEST N. I-IUMPHREY, OF NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE TRAUT 8d HINE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORA- TION OF CONNECTICUT.

' BUCKLE.

. Patented Nov. 23, 1915.

Application filed November 11, 1914. Serial No. 871,435.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ERNEST N. HUM- PHREY, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of New Britain, county of Hartford, State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Buckles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to garment supporter trimmings and particularly to an improved buckle for use therewith.

In the drawings,-Figure 1 is a front elevation of said buckle. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section on the line 22. Fig. 8 is a vertical section on the'line 3-3. Fig-4: is a perspective view of the buckle-frame. Fig. 5

is a perspective view of the gripping-lever.

Thebuckle comprises two parts,'namely a frame and a web-gripping lever pivoted on the frame and arranged to cotiperate therewith to grip a piece of webbing. The frame comprises two bars 1 and 2, connected at their ends as at 3, 4. 5 represents aslot be tween said bars through which the webbing passes. The bar 2 is of greater width than the bar 1 and is provided near each end with oppositely arranged L-shaped slots 6, 7, the

outer ends of each of said slots extending into the slot 5, near the ends of the latter.

By this arrangement the edge 2" of the bar is made flexible, the degree of flexibility being determined by the length of the said L- shaped slots 6, 7. The bar 1 is somewhat offset from the plane of the bar 2,so'as to be projected forwardly of said'plane, as best seen in Fig. 3. The lever comprises the exposed arm 8,.the gripping part 9 and the knuckle portions 10, 10, the latter being formed at eachend of the lever, the gripping part 9 beingof a length substantially equal to the length of the yielding edge 2? of the bar 2. l1 .representsa piece of webbing, one end of-which is looped around the bar 2 and over the yielding edge 2*, said looped end being stitched as at 12, or otherwise suitably fastened. The other end of the webbing runs through the space between theloop inthe first-mentioned end'ofthe webbing and the gripping part 9 of the le- Copies of this patent may: beobtained for ver. Assuming that the lever is cast 01f or opened so as to disengage the gripping part 9 from the webbing, the latter may be freely pulled through to the desired position, whereupon the lever may be closed down so as to frictionally engage the webbing. As the lever is closed down, the yielding-edge 2 of the bar 2 will yield and allow the lever to snap past and to assume the position shown in Fig. 3, wherein the parts will be effectively held in operative position.

It will be observed that a substantial advantage is gained by providing the L-shaped slots described, in that the gripping edge 2 may .be unbroken throughout its length,

It is obvious that the degree of flexibility of the yielding edge 2 may be varied by simply varying the length of the Lshaped slots, and this may be done Without in any manner cutting into, or otherwise injuring,

the relatively longand uninterrupted yielding edge 2 upon which the webbing is supported at all times.

What I claim is: i

In a buckle, a-one-piece sheet metal frame comprising continuous top and bottom bars connected at their ends in spaced apartrelation to provide a web passage between them, a gripping lever pivoted on the top bar, said bottombar having oppositely arranged L-shaped slots formed therein extending from the central portion of said bar toward the ends of the bar and thence angularly to the web passage between the bars to thereby provide the bottom bar with a continuous relatively yielding edge forming the lower edge of the web passage.

ERNEST N. HUMPHREY.

Witnesses:

F .-L. TRAUT, F. V. MCDONOUGH.

iivecents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

